Toilet box



Patented Aug. 20, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

The following specification relates to novel and useful improvements incovered toilet boxes. These boxes are small lightweight articlesgenerally molded in one piece of plastic material.

Such boxes are made in varying forms and shapes to contain toiletarticles such as brushes, mancuring tools, cosmetic packages and tubes,soap and the like. Very frequently the articles or material left in theboxes are damp. The conditions of temperature and handling of-such boxesis such that some means must be provided to maintain the contents ingood condition, inodorous and ventilated. At the same time it is quitedesirable that the impression be given of a tightly closed box. v

A purpose of my invention is to provide for a covered toilet box whichyis suitably vented to insure ease in applying and removing the cover.

A further object of the invention is to keep the interior wellventilated, in good condition and free from the prospect of developing abad odor.

Incidental to my invention it is intended to provide venting in suchmanner as to be inconspicuous, not subject to clogging or to beobstructed by the persons hand in applying the cover. The invention alsoprovides for the distribution of the venting facilities at both ends ofthe cover and for the support solely at the ends while the intermediateportion is given a reenforcing shape.

As illustrating the preferred form which my invention may take, I haveillustrated such a box in the attached drawing in which Fig. 1 is a planview of the covered box;

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, and A Fig. 3 is anend elevation.

A box constructed according to my invention must be of pleasingappearance, of strong construction and easy to handle. Such a oneconsists of the box 5 having perpendicular sides 6 and 'I. This box ismade of a thin sheet of plastic material forming a one-piece articlesuitably resistant to the materials which are to be contained and thehandling to which it is subjected.

The sides 6 and ends 1 are perpendicular with respect to the bottom.Each end I carries two or more inconspicuous vent openings 8 as shown inFigs. 2 and 3. These openings are beneath the lowermost point reached bythe sliding cover so that the openings are open at all times.

The top edges of the sides 6 and ends 'I are in a common plane parallelto the bottom.

The cover 9 is also made of a thin sheet of plastic material forming aone-piece article. The cover has close tting sides I0 and ends II. Thesev have a slipping or sliding contact with the sides and ends of the boxproper. In its closed form the cover S is in the position shown in Fig.2 and 5 rests solely upon the upper edges of the ends l.

The upper surface of the cover 9 has inwardly extending iiat portionsI2, I2 which rest upon the edges of the ends l, 'I as indicated inr Fig.r2. The entire remaining upper surface of the cover takes 10 the form ofupstanding projections. In the form illustrated these projections are aseries of parallel ribs I 3, I3. The outer ribs extend over the sidewall 6 of the box and are raised up from the latter so that they do notrest upon the box. 16 Intermediate each two adjacent ribs there is alongitudinal groove I4. The opposite endsof the groove I 4 have ventopenings I5, I5. It will be unnecessary to provide these openings in allof the grooves and it is suflicient if such open- 20 ings ap-pearbetween the outer pairs of ribs and in some central groove preferablybetween the central pair of ribs.

These openings I5 are inthe form of extended slots and are located inthe grooves I4 slightly 25 spaced from the flat portions I2.

The covered box as above described and illustrated combines simplicitywith pleasing appearance and improved electiveness and strength. Thecover slips or slides into position on the end 30 edges of the box asshown in Fig. 2. The end ribs do not rest upon the edges of the side '6and, therefore, reduces the prospect of improper setting due toobstruction by material that may have been carelessly placed within thebox.

The longitudinal ribs form a strengthening means for the covermaintaining it in the proper plane between the opposite ends. Theupstanding ribs serve the purpose both of concealing the presence of theslots I5 and at the same time 40 prevent the persons hand from coveringup the slots and preventing the free passage of air therethrough.

Numerous other advantages Will be evident from the above and theinvention is to be considered as limited only'by the scope of thefollowing claims.

What I claim is:

1. A box having perpendicular sides and ends, a cover of plastic sheetmaterial having a peripheral downturned flange slidably fitting over thesides and ends of the box, a at portion at eachv end of the coveradapted to rest upon the ends of the box, and a series of ups-tandingparallel ribs extending from the ilat portion of one end '55 sides and.ends of the box, a fiat portion at each end of the cover adapted torest on the ends of the box, a series of upstanding parallel ribs withgrooves therebetween extending from the at portion of one end to the atportion of the other end and having the outer ribs merging with thesides of the cover and vent slots in the grooves 5 between adjacentribs.

JOSEPH DAVIS.

